Rural Kansans tend to overlook the benefits of their small communities, said Ron Wilson, who has spent recent decades focused on how to build them up. “I think we under-appreciate the good things about where we live in the rural heartland,” Wilson said. With COVID-19 causing a shift of employees to remote work, rural Kansas can take advantage of that by drawing more people to live and work via computer link from its rural communities. “We believe it’s a window of opportunity,” said Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Wilson spoke at the Marysville City Building recently at the last in a fall lecture series funded by Kansas Humanities.
Source: The Marysville Advocate
